Fig. 1. Footballweblog.com compared to other expert cheatsheets
Footballweblog.com provides the best fantasy football cheatsheets for kickers found anywhere. That may sound like a brash and open-ended declaration, but in this post, I’ll back up that claim.
After playing fantasy football for years – dating back to 1986 – I’ve been burned time and again by inaccurate kicker cheatsheets. Whatever means the publishers of these cheatsheets used to come up with their rankings, I’ve always felt they were invariably unreliable.
Until recently, I’d resigned myself to simply accept that kickers are an enigma. I’ve seen some of the best kickers in the league finish near the bottom of the pack in fantasy scoring. I’ve also witnessed kickers struggle with accuracy – barely hang on to a roster spot – yet finish among the highest scorers of the season. From game-to-game, too, the scoring of a kicker seems to carry no logic. One game, a kicker may hit three field goals and three extra points and finish the game with a handsome 12-point outing. The next game, that same kicker may only score a couple extra points. So how does a person make sense of kickers? This past summer, I decided to try and find out.
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